Using Medicare as a Baseline Could Reduce Variation in Commercial Insurance Payments A new analysis using data from the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD) shows millions in potential savings for Coloradans with commercial health insurance by using Medicare and average commercial payments as a baseline. Reducing variation using Read more…
New scorecards find that 21% of commercial payments and 40% of Medicaid payments place providers at financial risk for meeting quality targets DENVER – November 13, 2018 – Over half of the health care payments (57%) paid to doctors and hospitals in Colorado by the commercial sector in 2016 contain Read more…
$54-141 Million in Annual Savings Possible According to New Analysis November 8, 2018 — DENVER, CO — Colorado’s total health care costs for commercially insured individuals in 2016 increased two percentage points from 2015, according to a new multi-state benchmark analysis released today by the Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement Read more…
Center for Improving Value in Health Care (CIVHC) is excited to announce the establishment of an extension office at the new Catalyst HTI health care complex in the River North neighborhood of Denver. The mission of Catalyst HTI is to create a community of health care innovation professionals and businesses Read more…
CIVHC is excited to announce that Kristin Paulson, JD, MPH, VP of Research and Innovation, was one of eight health professionals named as a 2018-2019 RWJF Health Policy Fellow by the National Academy of Medicine and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Beginning in September, Kristin will spend a year in Read more…
Consumers Can Now Shop for Health Care Imaging Services in Colorado A new online tool based on data from the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD) shows prices for imaging services at health care facilities across the state. This information can help patients across Colorado locate facilities with the Read more…
A new interactive Condition Prevalence report is now available based on data in the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD). The report provides information to help Change Agents find ways to identify variation in chronic and life-threatening health conditions across the state with the ultimate goal of improving the Read more…
New Study Identifies Drivers of Colorado’s High Health Care Costs Compared to Other States Millions in Annual Savings Potential Statewide A new multi-state study shows Colorado could save more than $48 million annually across 102 adult primary care practices if prices for health care services were closer to the average Read more…
A new interactive Quality of Care report is now available based on data in the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD). The report provides information to help Change Agents find ways to reduce variation in the way care is delivered with the ultimate goal of improving health and reducing Read more…
A new interactive health care utilization report is now available based on data in the Colorado All Payer Claims Database (CO APCD). The report provides information to help Change Agents find ways to reduce variation in the way care is being utilized with the ultimate goal of improving health and Read more…